“Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Only a crisis— actual or perceived—produces real change.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“I have . . . my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

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